Didymiaceae is a family of plasmodial
slime mold
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota clades. Most are near-microscopic; those in the Myxogastria ...
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Physarales
Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamprodermataceae, and the Physaraceae. Physarales was circumscribed by Thomas Huston Macbride and published in 1922.
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Genera
The family contains the following four genera:
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Diderma
''Diderma'' is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae. The genus was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (31 December 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognize ...
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Didymium
Didymium () is a mixture of the elements praseodymium and neodymium. It is used in safety glasses for glassblowing and blacksmithing and filter lenses for flame testing, especially with a gas (propane)-powered forge, where it provides a filt ...
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Mucilago
''Didymium spongiosum'', also known as dog sick slime mold, is a species of true slime mold in the order Physarales
Physarales is an order of Amoebozoa in the class Myxomycetes. It contains three families, the Didymiaceae, the Lamproderm ...
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References
Amoebozoa families
Myxogastria
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